The wise author and academic Clayton Christensen coined the phrase “disruptive innovation.” A couple of years ago, right before he passed away, he predicted that half the colleges and universities in the United States would have to close in the next ten years.

I’ve spent the week in San Francisco talking in “spooky units.” Numbers that mess with my mind. My trip from Baja was precipitated by the fact that my postponed medical and wellness appointments were seriously past due.

I’m not Mel Gibson. And you’re not Sigourney Weaver. So, we’re not going to replay the film “The Year of Living Dangerously,” set in Indonesia during a time of extreme political turmoil.

Simone de Beauvoir is one of those epic writers and thinkers who has influenced so many of us. She’s on par with Sartre and buried next to him at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. She was an existential philosopher, early-day feminist, and political activist.

I wish this book already existed, but Arthur Brooks is in the midst of writing it. I did a Q&A with Arthur a couple months ago and his column in The Atlantic called “How to Build a Life” is profound. A few weeks ago, when he sent me one of his most recent columns entitled “‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy,” I cowered. Has he been stalking me?

A curmudgeon friend recently shrugged, “I hate change!” I responded without trying to be too cheeky, “You’ll probably hate irrelevance even more.”

I’ll never forget the disappointment I felt one Christmas when I didn’t get the gift at the top of my Santa list. Disappointment feels like slowly falling down a cliff—not fast enough to scare you, but precariously enough, so you know you don’t have your footing. And, when you’re a kid, that fall can feel like it will last an eternity.

I arrived in the U.S. yesterday. Well, let’s be honest. I arrived in San Francisco. As Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner suggested long ago in the hippie era, “San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.” Geez, there’s a lot of REALITY these days, isn’t there?

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about one of my co-founders, Jeff Hamaoui, after he wrote a post, The Carpenter and the Gardener, dedicated to me and our third co-founder Christine Sperber.

The next time someone says this sentence to you, smile, and respond, “Thank you.” Hope you enjoy the video below. #showingmyage